Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2025 Newsletter
EPASsionate eTwinners ' Contribution to the European Year of Digital Citizenship Education by Gabriela Ciolpan and Ivana Opačak
In August 2024, the eTwinning project EPASsionates was registered on the European School Education Platform( ESEP). It lasted until the end of June 2025, when it was submitted for the National and European Quality Label awards. The project is a continuation of the eTwinning projects Down EU Avenue( 2022 / 23) and Vote4Democracy Ambassadors( 2023 / 24). The founders
and coordinators of all three projects are English teachers Gabriela Ciolpan( from the Lazar Edeleanu Technical School in Năvodari, Romania) and Ivana Opačak( from the Secondary School of Economics in Slavonski Brod, Croatia). The project includes European Parliament Ambassador Schools( EPAS), which also hold the title of eTwinning Schools, from Greece, Spain, Romania and Croatia.
European Year of Digital Citizenship The project EPASsionates focuses on strengthening international cooperation, European digital literacy and active citizenship. These are key concepts highlighted by this year’ s Council of Europe initiative – 2025 has been declared the European Year of Digital Citizenship Education. The theme also aligns with this year’ s eTwinning campaign Education for Citizenship, and coincides with the 20th anniversary of eTwinning. The project promotes the importance of collaborative planning in the educational process, integrated learning / teaching of vocational and general education content and foreign languages( Content and Language Integrated Learning / CLIL), using European teaching materials, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the STE( A) M methodology.
During the first project meeting on October 4, 2024, teacher Ivana Opačak presented a model lesson plan( her original work), which served as the foundation for the year-long project work. As an example of project collaboration, the two coordinators( Opačak and Ciolpan) presented their experience of
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